Senility

DESCRIPTION

The mental changes associated with senility include a progressive and irreversible decline in intellectual functioning due to organic disease. It may be exhibited by a loss of memory and sometimes childish behaviour. There may be a lack of ability to think clearly, definitive personality changes, impaired hearing and, ultimately, loss of independent living and control over the functions of elimination.

Whereas the physical changes associated with Aging occur in all individuals to some extent, evidence of psychological degeneration is not universal. In common usage, the term senility is applied only to mental Aging.